Performance improvement of force feedback in bilateral teleoperation with PD controller

This paper deals with the performance improvement of force feedback in bilateral teleoperation with PD controller. In traditional PD structures, the force feedback is simply determined by the position and velocity of the master and the slave manipulators, which may induce large resistance forces to the operator even in free motion. In this paper, a novel PD bilateral controller is proposed to tackle this problem. By incorporating a distance variable in the controller, we show that the appropriate force feedback can be obtained which still guarantees the system stability. To validate the proposed algorithm, an experiment is also carried out on our single degree of freedom teleoperation system. The results indicate that this strategy is effective for safe teleoperation missions.